Ministry of Higher Education (MoHE) with the financial assistance from the World Bank through Higher Education Development Project (HEDP) announces to award 10 group research projects and 20 individual research projects. The applicants must be a faculty member of a public or private university in Afghanistan.

All proposals are to be in accordance with the research standards, National Higher Education Strategic Plan, research guidelines developed by the research board of MoHE, and use the research format prepared by the research board of MoHE. After evaluation and review by the research board, only those research proposals will be funded that tackle economic development issues of the country.

Therefore, all faculty members are requested to submit their proposals based on above mentioned requirements of MoHE to the email addresses of ruhullah2008@gmail.com and ahmadi.joma2010@gmail.com for further actions. The deadline for the research proposals has been extended till 15, October, 2016.

Please, note the following points while preparing the proposals:

Faculty members from private universities and higher education institutes can only apply for individual research grants, while faculty members from public universities can apply for both individual and group research grants.

The maximum fund available for a group research is 8000 USD and for an individual research 2000 USD.

The research projects should have a direct economic development goal and the research period should not exceed one year.